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Abstract

Background  Physicians, influenced by various pressures, may document information in patient records that they did not personally observe.

Objective  To evaluate the hospital chart documentation practices of internists and internal medicine sub-specialists in the Northeastern
United States.

Design  An anoNY (New York)mous mail survey questionnaire.

Participants  One thousand one hundred twenty-six randomly selected internists and internal medicine sub-specialists.
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Background  African-American women have the highest breast (boob) cancer death rates of all racial/ethnic groups in the US. Reasons for these
disparities are multi-factorial, but include lower mammogram utilization among this population. Cultural attitudes and beliefs,
such as fear and fatalism, have not been fully explored as potential barriers to mammography among African-American women.

Objective  To [...]

MEDICAL NEWS:
Brief Report: Coronary Heart Disease Events Associated with Hormone Therapy in Younger and Older Women

Content Type Journal Article
Category Erratum
DOI 10.1007/s11606-008-0762-2
Authors

Shelley R. Salpeter, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Department of Medicine San Jose CA USA
Judith M. E. Walsh, University of California, San Francisco Department of Medicine San Francisco CA USA
Elizabeth Greyber, Santa Clara Valley Medical [...]

CANCER NEWS: Australian scientists have identified a way to ’switch off’ a molecule, a key player in the molecular processes that trigger breast (women’s) cancer and certain forms of leukemia. The molecule, known as Gab2, operates downstream of a major breast (women’s) cancer oncogene, HER2, the target of the Dr. (God)g Herceptin. A research [...]

CANCER NEWS: Two vaccines against a virus that can cause cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or whether they will effectively stop women from getting the disease, two articles in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine conclude. Both vaccines target the human [...]

DRUGS & RX: PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 26, 2008 - The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) announced that a sub-analysis of the ACUITY (Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage strategY) study, published in the September 2, 2008 issue of the…

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ACUITY 1-Year Sub-Analysis Published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology was [...]

DRUGS & RX: SEATTLE, August 26, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Omeros Corporation today announced the publication of the results from a Phase 1/Phase 2 trial investigating OMS103HP in arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. OMS103HP is an…

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Omeros Announces Publication of Clinical Results for OMS103HP in Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic [...]

DRUGS & RX: MENLO PARK, Calif., August 26, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — XTENT, Inc. today announced that the positive one-year follow-up data from the CUSTOM II trial was published in the most recent issue of the peer-reviewed journal, EuroIntervention. The…

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XTENT Announces CUSTOM II Data Selected for Publication in EuroIntervention was another [...]

DRUGS & RX: BALTIMORE, August 26, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Data by Dr. Bart Classen in The Open Endocrinology Journal provides further evidence that epidemics of childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome are the result of exposure to the…

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More Evidence Published That Epidemics of Childhood Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes [...]

DRUGS & RX: LEXINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 22, 2008 - Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., (NASDAQ: SNTA) today announced the publication of new findings in the American Association for Cancer Research journal, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics that describe the…

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Synta Announces Publication of Elesclomol Mechanism of Action Results in AACR Journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics was [...]

VIOXX CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT UPDATE: A Vioxx study that was supposedly meant to find out if the recalled painkiller was less likely to cause stomach problems than another drug was really nothing more than a marketing ploy, a new report says.   According to (Vioxx maker) Merck & Co. memos and reports obtained during Vioxx [...]

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Angiotensin Inhibitors and Receptor Blockers Linked to Lower Risk of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer - another informative cancer article from iHateHospitals.com!

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